their eyes were watching god

When I first started reading "Their eyes are watching god"  I did not think I would enjoy it as much as I did. I really did not like Janie through majority of the book, there was just something about her that I could not handle. Then once she had to pick either her life or Tea Cakes and she picked herself my perspective of her changed. I believe that Janie and Tea Cakes relationship was the realist thing Janie was ever going to accomplish. I think she finally realized once Tea Cake was dead that she lived a good life with him and that she could now be happy by herself. Tea Cake and Janie were not just a normal couple they had something special. Janie was head over heels for Tea Cake and vise-versa. There was a certain quote that really stuck out to me and made me realize just how much Janie loved Tea cake. "it was the meanest moment of eternity, A minute before she was just a scared human being fighting for its life. Now she was her sacrificing self with Tea Cake's head in her lap". I believe this is the moment Janie understood how much she honestly loved herself. She knew Tea Cake was going to die and she had the option of dying with him. Although some say at the end of the book Janie is dying which I personally will never know, but in my opinion I do not believe she was dying I believe she was coming to see what life is really about. I think Janie had a problem with being alone, she was married three separate times the first two were not good and did not last. While after Jody her second husband died she did stay single for sometime but not as long as everyone would have liked her too. Over all I believe this was a really good book, I learned a lot about people back in this time period.